Shadow of the Silk Road (46 page)

Red Guards

Revolutionary Guard

Rey

Richthofen, Friedrich von

Romans

Rome

Roxana (wife of Alexander the Great)

Rukn-ad-din

Rushdie, Salman

Ruslan (Kyrgyz)

Russia

Russian Orthodox Church

Samarkand

Russians

Rustam (hero)

Safavid, dynasty

Saladin, sultan

Samarkand

Sanjar, sultan

Sanliurfa

Sarnath

SARS

Sassanian dynasty

Saudi Arabia

Seleucia Pierea

Seleucus I

Seljuks

Seneca

Seres

Serica

Shaanxi museum

Shaanxi province

Shah Rud valley

Shah Rukh

Shah-i-zinda (grave of Qusam ibn Abbas), Samarkand

Shahi

Shahnama

Shalamov, Varlam

Shams Kilaya

Shandong

Shaybanid dynasty

Shebergan

Shen Congwen

Shirin river

Shutur Khan

Siberia

Sichuan

silk

in Buddhism

discovery

dissemination

in Islam

among the Mongols

manufacture

in Persia

qualities

Roman view of origins

secret betrayal

subverting Roman economy

superfine

uses

Silk House constellation

Silk Road

Antioch at western end of

Changan at eastern end of

decline of

humbler traffic

interconnectedness

letters travelling along

lingua franca of

spread of inventions along

spread of musical instruments along

trade along

Sipylus, Mount

Sirnak

Sogdians

Song-kul lake

South China Sea

Soviet Union/USSR

Spain

Sri Lanka

Stalin, Joseph

Stark, Freya

Stein, Aurel

stirrups

Sufis
see also

Mevlevi, Naqshbandi

Sui dynasty

Sultaniya

Sun Yatsen

Sung dynasty

Sunni

Sussmayr massif

Suzhou

Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes) river

Syria

Syrians

Tabriz

Tahir (BBC worker)

Taizong, emperor

Tajikistan

Tajiks

Takht-i-Pul

Taklamakan desert

Talas

battle of (
AD
751)

Talas river

Talas valley

Taliban

Tamerlane the Great

tomb

Tang dynasty

and Changan

Tangshan

Tanintanin mountains

Tao Te Ching

Taoism

Tarim basin

Tartars

Tash Rabat

Tashkent

Taurus mountains

Tazhong

Tehran

Termez

terracotta army

Tethys Sea

Tian Shan mountains

Tiananmen Square, Beijing

massacre

Tianshui

Living Buddha of

Tibet

Tigris river

Timurids

Titus, emperor

Tocharians

Tochtor (Kyrgyz)

Toktogul lake reservoir

Torugart pass

Turcomans

Turkestan

Turkey

journey in

Turkic peoples

‘Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan’

Turkmen desert

Turkmenistan

Turks

Tus

Tusi, Nasir ad-din

Twelfth Imam/the Mahdi

Uighurs

Ukrainians

Ulug Beg, prince

Unai Enye (goddess)

United Nations (UN)

Assistance Mission, Mazar-e-

Sharif

United States of America

Urumqi

University

Ushmurvan river

Ustkurgan

Uzbekistan

journey in

Uzbeks

Vahid (Iranian emigrant)

Vakhuman, king of Samarkand

Vatican

‘Vegetable Lamb’

Vespasian, emperor

Virgin Mary

Visigoths

Wahabis/Wahabism

Wang, Abbot

Wang Zhonghu

Warner, Langdon

Wei valley

Wei river

West, the

time line

Western Market, Changan

Western music

White Jade river, Khotan

World Trade Center

Wudi, emperor

Xian

Xinjiang

Xuanzang, monk

Xuanzong, emperor

Yacub Beg

Yalda

Yangtze river

Yarkand

Yellow Emperor

grave-mound of

Yellow Hat sect

Yellow River

Yenisei river

Ying (Luo Ying)

Yongchang

Youshashan

Yu (professor)

Yuan dynasty

Zahir Shah, king

Zanjan

Zelim (Zelim Khan) (artist)

Zerafshan river

Zhangye

Zhelaizhai

Zhukov, Marshal

Zoroaster

Zoroastrianism